Our first 'Take Back The Streets' prayer meeting took place yesterday, with a good number of people coming to pray either in church or on the streets: Two groups went out to pray on the main road through Goldthorpe, praying for our local shops, primary school, local...

The pessimist sees the glass as half-empty and can be guaranteed to bring gloom and despondency to any situation. It’s second nature to a pessimist to see the worst in any situation and to believe that the worst will always happen. I struggle with pessimism on a daily...

Man’s inhumanity to man (and to animals and pretty much everything else) is well catalogued throughout history. The cruelty we can often display to others is not only seen in dictators and megalomaniacs. We often display it in many more subtle ways: the toddler who...